F-16 Dérivatives

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A circular air intake was dangerous for the pilot if the ejection seat is weak (that is why it was not built, probably):

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(today's addition to my F-16 whif site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/f16ofil.htm )

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The Russian Foton with 3 engines looks like a F-16 cousin in my single-engine version:

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The Sukhoy S-54 first proposal (with a chin air intake) was also looking like a F-16 but alas with two fins, this needed a F-16ish what-if derivative, of course:

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And between regular F-16 and Sukhoy S-54, here is the missing link:

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And a MiG project could look like a F-16 with great similarity:

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A Tupolev source with cryogenic fuel (high volume) inspired F-16 designers (in my dreams):

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To get more volume for tanks, a more radical way would have been choosing a circular section fuselage:

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This is a different twin-boom F-16:

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When the F-16 won the "sale of the Century", the Mirage F.1E lost, and the French government refused to confirm its order of F.1E, or delta Mirage 2000 as well (or as bad), instead Dassault was commanded to build a French F-16: the Mirage 2016:

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Decades later, French sellers saw the same nightmare happen again: Poland refused the Rafale (expensive with 2 engines) to prefer buying the F-16... In urgency was proposed a F-16-like Rafale R-16 but it was too late alas (except for us what-ifers liking imaginative designs).

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Top Secret!
Here is the source of the XF-16 (that did not come from nowhere): the SR-716 was a derivative of the SR-71, that lacked range for SR mission but became the fighter F-16, no?

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There is a weird canopy on a Lippisch project (available as Unicraft kit: http://www.unicraft.biz/germ/li15-5/li15-5.htm) and a F-16 (or two) should try this:

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And another F-16 was inspired by the Bv P.192, long range with a turboprop (not supersonic though):

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To complete the AV-8B came the VF-16:

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A triple-rotor VTOL F-16 was too much serious, sorry , while I swear I am a what-ifer not a Historian, so here is a F-16 Hollywood actress:

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